"As people live longer, and apart from their grown children. The age and the distance means that an increasing number of these grown children will be invited into their parentsâ€™ financial lives, with little clue about any of the details the parents had handled for decades." In a recent Wall...

The specialty of Elder Law is becoming more important as our population ages. People are living longer, but in many cases, are not living better. "The number of older individuals in the population is projected to increase to 71.5 million in 2030, representing nearly 20 percent of the U.S....

If the government doesn't act soon, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries will face a 50 percent increase in their Part B premiums for 2016, while more than two-thirds will pay no premium hike at all. Most beneficiaries will pay the same monthly premium next year as they paid this...

A report from the Alzheimerâ€™s Association projects that Medicare spending on American's with Alzheimerâ€™s will more than quadruple to $589 billion annually by 2050. Today, Medicare spends nearly one-in-five dollars on people with Alzheimerâ€™s but by 2050, it could be one-in-three.In a recent...

Most people heading into retirement know life after work isn't all shuffleboard on the lido deck. There can be serious money and health care concerns, not to mention worries about boredom and relationship conflict with all that newfound free time. Less apparent may be the sheer number of hours...